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Holly Springs, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Willow Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51026. It stands on Lum Hollow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Climbing Hill quadrangle.

Holly Springs within Woodbury County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Holly Springs between 2008 and 2011, burning about 175 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
25 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 May 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources3 MILES W OF CLIMBING HILL, IOWA
7 October 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined120 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources2876 JASPER AVE SMITHLAND, IA, IA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Woodbury County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Holly Springs: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownClayPast Producer
Mitchell-Steinhoff PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Woodbury County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holly Springs in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1995Thunderstorm WindHolly Springs$50,000Thunderstorm winds blew down large trees, many limbs, power lines, damaged a grain elevator, and blew the roof off of a cafe.

Every storm recorded in Woodbury County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Hornick3.0 miles9
Owego4.1 miles9
Climbing Hill4.9 miles9
Smithland8.3 miles8
Sloan8.4 miles9
Luton9.2 miles9
Oto9.8 miles8
Lucky Valley (historical)10.8 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 457562. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.